APuritansMind
Puritan Board Junior
I enjoy reading the KJV and use the ESV for reference. I am not a KJV-only person and I enjoy the readability of the ESV along with the cleaner/clearer font that is used and I wish that one day the KJV would be published in a cleaner/clearer font. The ESV is much easier on the eyes when using bifocals.
I agree that the ESV language is easier to read in many passages, but I have one major hang-up and need some help from you all. I'm not trying to stir up the pot and my intentions are honest. I simply want to understand the opinions of more learned people than me. This issue keeps me from feeling 100% confident in the ESV translation and I would appreciate hearing from any ESV proponents concerning the following questions:
1. Would you consider the last part of John 5:3 and all of John 5:4 part of God's Word?
a. If so, would a ESV proponent reading this chapter before the congregation (consecutive chapter reading of Scripture in worship) read from the footnotes or skip right from verse three to verse five?
b. If not, wouldn't the KJV folks be adding to God's Word when reading the end of verse three and the entirety of verse four?
I deeply appreciate any light you can shed on this for me.
KJV
Joh 5:3 In these lay a great multitude of impotent folk, of blind, halt, withered, waiting for the moving of the water.
Joh 5:4 For an angel went down at a certain season into the pool, and troubled the water: whosoever then first after the troubling of the water stepped in was made whole of whatsoever disease he had.
ESV
Joh 5:3 In these lay a multitude of invalids--blind, lame, and paralyzed.
Joh 5:4 (OMITTED TEXT and VERSE NUMBER) Text inserted as a footnote at the bottom of the page.
I agree that the ESV language is easier to read in many passages, but I have one major hang-up and need some help from you all. I'm not trying to stir up the pot and my intentions are honest. I simply want to understand the opinions of more learned people than me. This issue keeps me from feeling 100% confident in the ESV translation and I would appreciate hearing from any ESV proponents concerning the following questions:
1. Would you consider the last part of John 5:3 and all of John 5:4 part of God's Word?
a. If so, would a ESV proponent reading this chapter before the congregation (consecutive chapter reading of Scripture in worship) read from the footnotes or skip right from verse three to verse five?
b. If not, wouldn't the KJV folks be adding to God's Word when reading the end of verse three and the entirety of verse four?
I deeply appreciate any light you can shed on this for me.
KJV
Joh 5:3 In these lay a great multitude of impotent folk, of blind, halt, withered, waiting for the moving of the water.
Joh 5:4 For an angel went down at a certain season into the pool, and troubled the water: whosoever then first after the troubling of the water stepped in was made whole of whatsoever disease he had.
ESV
Joh 5:3 In these lay a multitude of invalids--blind, lame, and paralyzed.
Joh 5:4 (OMITTED TEXT and VERSE NUMBER) Text inserted as a footnote at the bottom of the page.